Charge Of The Light Brigade Poem Quotes

At school she learned a poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade. One line came back to her: ‘Someone had blundered’. There was never a time when someone high up didn’t blunder. It was always them at the top of the heap who blundered and them near the bottom of the heap who paid the price.

Later, much would be made of the fact that October 25 was the ninetieth anniversary of the Crimean War’s Battle of Balaklava, immortalized by Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade.” Twice the poem critically asserts, “All the world wonder’d” at such a military blunder. The young ensign who encoded the message later claimed that “The world wonders” buffer was “just something that popped into my head.” But every man of Halsey’s generation knew well the reference, and the damage had been done.

08. Charge of the Light Brigade The Charge of the Light Brigade took place at the Battle of Balaclava, during the Crimean War, in October 1854. The Light Brigade was a British cavalry unit that expected to be sent to prevent Russian forces from removing captured Turkish guns. Due to miscommunication and other errors, they were sent to attack a different Russian unit, one which immediately shot back at them. The Light Brigade was not destroyed, but many of the men were killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. Tennyson's poem about the courage of these soldiers was published just six weeks after the event. Some collections include a version of The Light Brigade with modernized punctuation. We have chosen to print it as it first appeared in Tennyson's Poems.